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Trish Wilson @trishcwilson.bsky.social · 2h

Thanks! I'm starting to feel better. I should be okay by tomorrow.

Trish Wilson @trishcwilson.bsky.social · 7h

I had kept my fingers crossed I'd get in that book, & I did! I'm psyched for the Borden house visit, tour, & reading. The house itself is tiny & not spooky. It's very pretty with antique furniture. I don't think it needs ghosts. The history of the Bordens & the house is fascinating all on its own.

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Trish Wilson @trishcwilson.bsky.social · 8h

Thanks! I love it. I've been to the Borden house twice for the tour. I'm looking forward to returning soon for a book reading and another tour of the house. My husband will be with me and he's psyched, too.

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Trish Wilson @trishcwilson.bsky.social · 8h

Great chat as usual, and you were a great host, Gree_. You can find my famous horror authors interviews and other stuff on my web site: trishwilsonauthor.blogspot.com

My story THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR is in THE LIZZIE BORDEN HOUSE ANTHOLOGY. Pre-order link: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTQBFK4V

The Lizzie Borden House Anthology

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Trish Wilson @trishcwilson.bsky.social · 8h

Thanks! I feel better just being in this chat. I should be completely better by tomorrow.

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Trish Wilson @trishcwilson.bsky.social · 8h

I'm so psyched for the Borden book. I've been to the house twice for the tour. No ghosts. 😿 My story is about murders/suicide in the house next door years before the Bordens moved into their house. The ghosts from the house next door haunt the Borden house. Interesting folklore.

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Trish Wilson @trishcwilson.bsky.social · 8h

#HorrorWritersChat

My story THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR appears in THE LIZZIE BORDEN HOUSE ANTHOLOGY. Here's a pre-order link:

www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTQBFK4V

There's going to be a reading and tour at the house in Nov. Maybe a séance at midnight. More ghosts! I'll be there!

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Trish Wilson @trishcwilson.bsky.social · 8h

Thanks Gree for a great #HorrorWritersChat!

My interview with Bruce Campbell (Groovy!) is at The Horror Zine.

www.thehorrorzine.com/Special/Bruc...

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Trish Wilson @trishcwilson.bsky.social · 8h

Thanks! I've heard of Murray and Smith, but not Flynn. Time to get some more books!

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Trish Wilson @trishcwilson.bsky.social · 8h

#HorrorWritersChat

BTW, ghosts are my favorite paranormal creature. I love "true" hauntings & I try to visit them when possible. I love a good haunted restaurant. I don't believe in ghosts, but I consider myself an X Files Atheist - I Want To Believe. 👻

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 9h

Listen to the Symposium’s finest vocalist, as their tenor bends the living into unnatural angles and swivels them into the air! Tell us, what ghosts do you prefer? Of the folkloric tradition, or those invented by authors? And why?
#HorrorWritersChat

Question Three

Art by Jelle Husson, featuring a haunted monastery of many sharp-tipped towers scraping at the midnight sky. The largest is in the centre of the structure’s roof, whose walls are painted white. The monastery is located above a hilly terrain of dark stone and dark green moss. A stony, twisting road leads to the monastery.

It is always a delight to see our violinists perform! How the living bend their splintering bones as they float above us all! Tell us, our ghostly compatriots – which of us are better? Of the folkloric kind? Or invented by our shadowy creators?

No links, covers, or self-promo! Leave that for the end! Quote the post & include the hashtag!

#HorrorWritersChat

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HD Beird @thebeird.bsky.social · 8h

#HorrorWritersChat

The moment you entered the graveyard, the scrape of ancient stone shadowed your ears

And then your pants fell down and the dead laughed hard enough to summon tears!

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Rosé Black @roseblack2222.bsky.social · 8h

#HorrorWritersChat And as I saw the first of the graves being out of with rotting hands of those hungry for the living, My friends and I were like "Fuck this shit", got in our car and left the graveyard in our mirror view of rear.

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 8h

Come forth, Baron Crescendo! Let your guitar split the sky open, for more wraiths to dazzle us!

Behold, a note from him, for you!

“The moment you entered the graveyard, the scrape of ancient stone shadowed your ears.”

Finish it! With word of rhyme, before we dance to the end!

#HorrorWritersChat

Art by Jelle Husson, featuring a haunted monastery of many sharp-tipped towers scraping at the midnight sky. The largest is in the centre of the structure’s roof, whose walls are painted white. The monastery is located above a hilly terrain of dark stone and dark green moss. A stony, twisting road leads to the monastery.

Question Four

There he is! Baron Crescendo! Oh how the skies split open to his guitar, how more of us fly in the air! And look, a note from him, just for you!

“The moment you entered the graveyard, the scrape of ancient stone shadowed your ears.”

Well? Go on! Word or rhyme, continue his Muse!

No links, covers, or self-promo! Leave that for the end! Quote the post & include the hashtag!

#HorrorWritersChat

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Martin Shannon - Rare Book Author @martinshannon.bsky.social · 8h

"The moment you entered the graveyard," the skeleton said, "The scrape of ancient stone shadowed your ears."

"What'd you put in my ears?!" Martin slapped at his head. "Don't be putting shit in my ears!"

"No. It was poetic! I was saying--"

"Not cool messing with a guy's ears."
#HorrorWritersChat

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 8h

Come forth, Baron Crescendo! Let your guitar split the sky open, for more wraiths to dazzle us!

Behold, a note from him, for you!

“The moment you entered the graveyard, the scrape of ancient stone shadowed your ears.”

Finish it! With word of rhyme, before we dance to the end!

#HorrorWritersChat

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Viva La Vivian @vivalavivian.bsky.social · 8h

Be it rotten flesh or dusty bones against thy stones, doesn't matter, illusions shatter, once you see shadows dancing to a ghostly tune you've never heard, and yet, you have, for it was always going to play for you, for us, one day, the song plays for all of us, dust to dust.

#HorrorWriterschat

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 8h

Come forth, Baron Crescendo! Let your guitar split the sky open, for more wraiths to dazzle us!

Behold, a note from him, for you!

“The moment you entered the graveyard, the scrape of ancient stone shadowed your ears.”

Finish it! With word of rhyme, before we dance to the end!

#HorrorWritersChat

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Trish Wilson @trishcwilson.bsky.social · 8h

#HorrorWritersChat

The moment you entered the graveyard, the scrape of ancient stone shadowed your ears. The rubbing of the tombstone revealed a child who had died of influenza at 3 y. o. in 1918. Rather than rely on medicine, his parents prayed. You feel despair over a child's preventable death.

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 8h

Come forth, Baron Crescendo! Let your guitar split the sky open, for more wraiths to dazzle us!

Behold, a note from him, for you!

“The moment you entered the graveyard, the scrape of ancient stone shadowed your ears.”

Finish it! With word of rhyme, before we dance to the end!

#HorrorWritersChat

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J. Neira @jneiraauthor.bsky.social · 9h

I don't have lots of experience writing either, because my horror often has sci-fi origins: rogue AI, cosmic parasite, etc. With an occasional human slasher. I DID publish a short fantasy story featuring the fairy Yallery Brown (in The Fables Next Door) so there are exceptions!
#HorrorWritersChat

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 9h

Listen to the Symposium’s finest vocalist, as their tenor bends the living into unnatural angles and swivels them into the air! Tell us, what ghosts do you prefer? Of the folkloric tradition, or those invented by authors? And why?
#HorrorWritersChat

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Trish Wilson @trishcwilson.bsky.social · 9h

Have you seen "Splinter"? It's set in a gas station. No inter-dimensional insect infestations, but plenty of other nasty stuff.

Trish Wilson @trishcwilson.bsky.social · 9h

I've never been to Disney World (or is that one at Disneyland?), but that ride always sounded like fun to me.

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Jacob Marsh - Author 🇨🇦 @jacobmarsh.bsky.social · 9h

#HorrorWritersChat Q3:

For personal consumption, I see little difference. I don't believe in ghosts, so I find them both equally interesting. When writing, I like to start with folklore, see how authors before me have built on it, and start from about there. Have readers get comfy before the twist.

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 9h

Listen to the Symposium’s finest vocalist, as their tenor bends the living into unnatural angles and swivels them into the air! Tell us, what ghosts do you prefer? Of the folkloric tradition, or those invented by authors? And why?
#HorrorWritersChat

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Blair Shedd @onegemini.com · 9h

#HorrorWritersChat

Right now, I'm all about the folklore spirits. My current project deals with local ghosts and supernatural happenings, so I've been doing deep dives on some of the ghosts of the past, from train accidents, to haunted covered bridges, to Native spirits.

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 9h

Listen to the Symposium’s finest vocalist, as their tenor bends the living into unnatural angles and swivels them into the air! Tell us, what ghosts do you prefer? Of the folkloric tradition, or those invented by authors? And why?
#HorrorWritersChat

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Katherine "Kat" Silva @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social · 9h

I think my taste bends more towards ghosts that aren't traditional. Give me things that don't have a shape, don't have a voice, warp your mind or your guts or time. I want ghosts I can long for and be afraid of at the same time.

#horrorwriterschat

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 9h

Listen to the Symposium’s finest vocalist, as their tenor bends the living into unnatural angles and swivels them into the air! Tell us, what ghosts do you prefer? Of the folkloric tradition, or those invented by authors? And why?
#HorrorWritersChat

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Trish Wilson @trishcwilson.bsky.social · 9h

I also love unexplored wilderness. I live near a haunted forest that is an abandoned Colonial settlement. It's fun and creepy to walk there, especially when the fisher cats are out screaming for no reason.

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J.D. Buffington @jdbuffington.com · 9h

Q2: #HorrorWritersChat
Abandoned spaces are creepy, sure; unnatural darkness doesn’t feel safe—someone or THING could be in that back corner…

But unexplored wilderness hides so much more. Flora and fauna eager to kill and eat you, and the ghosts of their ancestors ready to drag you into the loam.

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 9h

Now, let us begin! Let the flutes bleat and the trumps blare, snatching all the souls of the living away! What are your favourite haunts? Mausoleums? Lavish estates? What secrets do their wraiths protect within?
#HorrorWritersChat

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Tashi Saheb-Ettaba @tashise.bsky.social · 9h

Well, I’m always cheering for the vengeful ghost ladies who unleash their wrath upon their slimy husbands/lovers.

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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 9h

Listen to the Symposium’s finest vocalist, as their tenor bends the living into unnatural angles and swivels them into the air! Tell us, what ghosts do you prefer? Of the folkloric tradition, or those invented by authors? And why?
#HorrorWritersChat

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Trish Wilson @trishcwilson.bsky.social · 9h

#HorrorWritersChat

Your description of the Symposium sounds like a ghostly jazz dance club. 🕺

While I love ghostly folklore alone, I like a combination of folklore and the writer's imagination. Things won't be predictable. I also like non-European ghosts. They're fascinating.

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 9h

Listen to the Symposium’s finest vocalist, as their tenor bends the living into unnatural angles and swivels them into the air! Tell us, what ghosts do you prefer? Of the folkloric tradition, or those invented by authors? And why?
#HorrorWritersChat

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